This pastry, steamed with red date filling, is highly satiating. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, all wheat-bas…
This pastry, steamed with red date filling, is highly satiating. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, all wheat-based foods were referred to as "bun," a term broader than the modern flat, round cake. As noted in Shi Ming-Release Diet by the Han scholar Liu Xi, "Steamed cakes, boiled noodles, scorpion-shaped cakes, marrow cakes, golden cakes, rope-like cakes, and similar varieties are all named according to their forms."